Don McLean: “American Pie”
Don McLean’s eight-minute ballad that reached the top of the charts was dissected by music fanatics ever since it came out in 1971. The song is a reflection on what happened to McLean’s favorite genre, having referenced “the day that the music died.”
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He was referring to the plane crash in 1959 that killed Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens.